Ziggy the Zebra

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas from Ziggy!!! 🦓 the zebra stripes really caught his eye!

12/17/2023

12/11/2023

Ziggy and his best friend Dreamer waiting on Christmas!

12/06/2023

Happy 1.5 years old birthday Ziggy!

As we all know, Ziggy our zebra formed a strong bond and imprinted on Cody.
But with that, Ziggy still thrives co-existing harmoniously surrounded by a diverse range of our animals, showcasing the beauty of species diversity on our farm.

Lately, Ziggy has taken up with Dreamer, a very young filly owned and paid for solely by our 9 year old daughter, Chloey.

Ziggy & Dreamer kick up their heals together zooming all over the farm then will kick back and take naps side by side.
But don’t worry, Ziggy will never forget Cody as he always has his eyes and ears open watching for any signs of Cody being anywhere close. You can hear Ziggy bark (holler) after Cody if he hears him but can’t see him. Cody and the rest of our family still take naps with him when we can.

Come see Ziggy during our Christmas on the Farm! Pony Rides/The Grinch/Petting Zoo/Santa & Mrs. Claus & MORE! coming up next weekend!

11/29/2023

We don’t normally post our personal life on our business page, but since vaguely mentioning Cody in the hospital so extending our gift card sale (which has put us behind on tons of business stuff with Cody being down and my workload much more), I figured I’d elaborate more on it since some are asking.

Cody went to bed last Wednesday, the night before thanksgiving, and has been bed ridden since last week.
We work on a farm daily so are pretty tough and not much brings us down (we even will gimp along doing farm chores with broken bones and more if needed if that tells you anything 😄).

Cody completely missed Thanksgiving (his favorite holiday 😉) and couldn’t get out of bed for 4 days straight without anything letting up and getting much worse with his headache/stiff neck/vomiting & fever.
Sunday morning, we came to the Grove City Mount Caramel ER to find him relief and answers of what made him bed ridden like this.
He was negative for Covid/flu and such so the first doctor that saw us, tried sending him home just saying he had an ear infection.
I told them it’s not just an ear infection, we wouldn’t come here for just an ear infection, it’s something more to keep him down like this. We suspected meningitis with his symptoms but the doctor reassured it is not that but brought in another doctor to go over everything.
The second doctor also didn’t believe he had it and reiterated not doing an MRI/CT Scan or Spinal Tap.
The second doctor finally came to an agreement after me being very persistent in answers, to do an MRI at which he still strongly didn’t think was necessary.
The MRI came back with a spot on Cody’s brain in the area that it had been hurting the most in.
A third doctor came in saying the spot on his brain wasn’t a big deal and probably just nothing. He said Cody would be dead by now if he had bacterial meningitis. But he did admit Cody at that point and were going to redo his MRI with contrast on his brain this time.
The 4th doctor that came in Sunday evening, was absolutely wonderful. He was genuinely concerned and worried about Cody, and was the first doctor to finally point out he strongly believes Cody has meningitis so he ordered up a spinal tap.
While waiting, they put him on 3 big strong fluid antibiotics to broadly cover any infections of whatever it is. Nothing helped Cody’s head/neck even strong meds didn’t work, until those fluid antibiotics kicked in overnight Sunday. He finally had relief and the second MRI Monday morning came in clear as the antibiotics worked.

From there on, every doctor involved was concerned, thorough and wonderful.
His spinal tap was done Monday afternoon and it did indeed show he has aseptic (viral) meningitis. We are waiting on the rest of the results but thankfully it is not any of the big scary types, just suspected to be from a common enterovirus that for Cody, turned into all of this. It is not contagious and he should be discharged soon and on the mend to be going back to normal since it’s all seemed to be cleared up.

Please bare with us as we have tons of catching up to do on both the business end, and our farm. Thanksgiving morning I walked out to find water gushing all over our fields which one of our draft horses knocked over our well head, which broke a water line underground also losing water pressure in our home as a result. So Cody has lots to do helping dig up water lines and replace our water pressure tank on top of many projects and more we need done before events coming up but going to slowly try to get him back going with it all.

This weekend we have lots of upcoming carriage rides, pony rides, petting zoo, nativity scene, hauling Santa in parades with carriage rides and more.
There is another post on this page that has Grove City & Mount Sterling in all caps which has the info for this weekend. We will try to make a post with the public events for the entire month so you know where you can find us.

We appreciate everyone being very patient and understanding and hope to see you soon!
~Chelsey

11/29/2023

***Gift cards EXTENDED to December 4th due to Cody being in the hospital which has delayed us some. Please e-mail us if you’d still like one and give us time to respond as we can and get you all set up.
Thanks!

GIFTCARDS now available!
Great for Experience Gifts or take advantage of discounts for your parties/events/services with us.

Special deal for Black Friday through Cyber Monday get $25 for every $75 spent.

GiftCards that never expire for any of our services mobile traveling anywhere in Ohio or on our farm including but not limited to;
•Private Farm Tours
•Horseback Trail Riding
•Pony/Unicorn Parties
•Petting Zoo Parties
•Tractor Parties
•Carriage Rides
•Sledding / Sleigh Rides
•Photography
•Public Events
•Easter on the Farm
•Christmas on the Farm
•Unicorns on the Farm

Spend = Receive
$75 = $100
$150 = $200
$225 = $300
$300 = $400 (Limit)

•Zelle - Cody Bush - 614-204-5353
•CashApp - $horsenroundfun
•Venmo -
•Credit card (small fee)

E-Giftcard will be sent and may be used multiple different times with no expiration even for a $1 treat item for the animals etc.

Thank you for supporting our small family owned business, especially going into the winter season when we and our animals need it most!

Chelsey & Cody Bush
Horse -N- Round Fun LLC
614-204-5353
[email protected]
horsenroundfun.com

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving!
Love Ziggy with the Zoomies on this sunny day!

11/10/2023

These two are the best and have seen Ziggy since we got him at 3 weeks old! Ziggy still loves them even with occasional pokes, they help us keep him healthy and feeling great!
Ziggy kept her busy on her first day back to work!

11/07/2023

Ziggy is happy to leave OSU and come home!
All is well, they extracted a baby tooth that was coming in wonky and his laceration in his upper gums is going to heal on it’s own.

The past few weeks he has been a little cranky and chewing on everything. He was basically teething since he had new baby teeth trying to come in offset from where they are supposed to.
In response to teething, Ziggy somehow managed to rub his upper gums slicing them rather deep right before his vet visit that was already scheduled.

He went to OSU straight from his primary vet just incase it was going to be very involved so nothing was missed.
They x-rayed to ensure there was no damage done internally which all checked out great.
His adult teeth are not yet developed so no damage was done thankfully.

No sutures were done, instead we will rinse his mouth daily with salt water, give pain meds and everything will heal up by the next couple weeks.

Thanks for thinking of Ziggy during this unexpected OSU visit.

Also thanks to a great friend Aileen Martin for hauling since our extra truck is down & Cody has our main truck/trailer down in Bainbridge.

11/06/2023

Ziggy is over 400lbs doubling his weight from February! He’s grown several inches taller as well as really filling out.
He’s really growing and thriving!

11/04/2023

Ziggy and his roommate trying pumpkins for their first time

10/24/2023

Ziggy loves his girls too, maybe not as much as Cody, but he still loves them so 💕🦓

10/24/2023

Happy fall y’all!
Love, Ziggy 🦓🍁🍂

10/18/2023

Hello?! Service?! Zebra tender?! Dinner needs to be served now! What is taking the walk thru window so long?!

-A Hungry Ziggy

10/16/2023

Ziggy loves his vet, technicians and assistants, especially Katie & Dr. Oehrig!
*Pic of Ziggy last winter during his big health scare.
Love seeing them but try not to see them too often 😅😉

Happy Vet Technician and Assistant week! We have a fabulous team of vet assistants that we could not be Bella Vista Equine Veterinary Services without. Please follow us this week in thanking and appreciating each of our hard working assistants!

Next up is Katie W! Katie has been with Bella Vista for 4 years now! She is our lead assistant and we are so grateful for all the extra support she gives us. Katie manages our assistants and does their shift scheduling, makes our clinic beautiful, ensures that we have working equipment, and always finds time to take on special projects even while working full time with Dr. Oehrig. Katie is an incredibly hard worker and we are so lucky to have her!

10/14/2023

GROVEPORT!!
TODAY!!!

GROVEPORT!
Groveport Apple Butter Day is having us back again this year!
FREE Pony Rides Saturday, 10/14 10am - 6pm Their entire event is rain or shine, we may bring our ponies & horses under our canopy for if it’s down-pouring but it is not tall enough to give rides under. Rides will go on between rain breaks.
Both adults & children can all enjoy riding as we will be bringing 10+ of various size ponies/horses to rotate through.
Ziggy the Zebra may also possibly come to this event but no promises.

HILLIARD - We will NOT be at Jim Kuhlwein’s Farm Market and Deli for Saturday, 10/14 due to no coverage from weather for our horses but will be back Sunday, 10/15 11am - 4pm for pony rides & some of our petting zoo animals.

10/14/2023

Ziggy partied hard on the farm and is ready to turn in his stall for bed.
Nighty night Zig💙🦓

10/13/2023

GROVEPORT!
Groveport Apple Butter Day is having us back again this year!
FREE Pony Rides Saturday, 10/14 10am - 6pm Their entire event is rain or shine, we may bring our ponies & horses under our canopy for if it’s down-pouring but it is not tall enough to give rides under. Rides will go on between rain breaks.
Both adults & children can all enjoy riding as we will be bringing 10+ of various size ponies/horses to rotate through.
Ziggy the Zebra may also possibly come to this event but no promises.

HILLIARD - We will NOT be at Jim Kuhlwein’s Farm Market and Deli for Saturday, 10/14 due to no coverage from weather for our horses but will be back Sunday, 10/15 11am - 4pm for pony rides & some of our petting zoo animals.

10/09/2023

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